A tiny, four-fingered 'hand' folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to ...

The rapid spread of animal diseases and pathogen evolution have long posed significant threats to the healthy development of ...

Discovery of efficient anti-cancer drugs and drug combinations is essential for therapy success. Therefore, it is crucial that new methods for efficient drug efficacy testing are developed to support ...

iPSC-derived cell models are a widely used tool that enables scientists to generate various cell types, organoids, and tissues. They are also instrumental in creating disease-specific phenotypes using ...

A new study reveals the biological secret to the Zika virus's infectious success: Zika uses host cells' own 'self-care' system of clearing away useless molecules to suppress the host proteins that the ...

Viral membrane proteins are the proteins of choice in vaccines but are difficult to produce quickly and reliably for use in vaccines, limiting rapid response during emerging outbreaks. Researchers ...

Cell culture is a fundamental technique in biotechnology and life sciences that involves growing and maintaining living cells outside their natural environment, typically in a controlled laboratory ...